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How to Learn Any Language 8
Psych Up
Americans have grown up believing learning languages is hard. It is not hard! It merely seems hard because language instruction in American schools and colleges has until lately been so exasperatingly dull and unrewarding.
Grammar, I again protest, is usually pres ...
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How to Learn Any Language 7
P A R T T W O
The System
Do as I Now Say,
Not as I Then Did
A wise man once said, “I wish I had all the time I’ve ever wasted, so I could waste it all over again.” Others may look at me and see someone who can, indeed, carry on a creditable conversation in about eighteen l ...
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How to Learn Any Language 6
How I Married Hungarian
You don’t launch into the study of a new language casually, but it’s not quite as solemn a decision as an American man proposing to his girlfriend after an evening of wine and light jazz. It is, however, something like an Ottoman sultan deciding to ...
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How to Learn Any Language 5
My Toughest Opponent
For the next four years I avoided taking up any new languages. I had nothing against any of them (except one). It was just that there were too many gaps in the tongues I’d already entertained and I wanted to plug them up.
The language I had something a ...
- 2007-04-21 13:34
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How to Learn Any Language 4
Rumours of Russian
When I arrived at the University of North Carolina, I got my first real opportunity to speak the European languages I was learning with native speakers. Students at the university came from many different countries. The Cosmopolitan Club, a group of fore ...
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How to Learn Any Language 3
Chinese Sailors Don’t Speak Latin
Forsaking Latin for Chinese was my own form of juvenile defiance. However, I have since used Chinese in some way almost every day. I confess to occasional curiosity as to what all those A students from Miss Leslie’s Latin class are doing ...
- 2007-04-21 13:33
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How to Learn Any Language 2
P A R T O N E
My Story
A Life of Language
Learning
A brief “language autobiography” may help readers whose language learning and language loving careers began only a few moments ago with the opening of this book.
My favourite word – in any language – is the English word fo ...
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How to Learn Any Language 1
Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and On Your Own
by
Barry Farber
Founder of the Language Club/Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host
To Bibi and Celia, for the pleasure of helping teach them their first language, followed by the pleasure of having them then teach me ...
- 2007-04-21 13:30
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